Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Tuesday afternoon Harvard dorms were plastered with posters provocatively asking: "How many Palestinians were killed yesterday?" The posters allege 23 dead, and while there is some controversy over this figure, they are right in publicizing the fact that many Palestinians were slain by Israeli police on Monday. Unfortunately for readers of the propaganda, this generality marks the pinnacle of the posters' truthfulness...
...nuclear retaliation would be extremely unlikely. Those weapons are reserved for the dark hours when the nation's existence is at stake; despite Saddam's apocalyptic rhetoric, Iraq is militarily incapable of destroying Israel. Moreover, Israeli generals are confident that their conventional weapons can both paralyze Baghdad and stop dead any Iraq troop movements into Jordan...
...murder was only the latest attempt to silence Vietnamese journalists. In 1980 the house of Tien Phong's publisher, Nguyen Tranh Huang, was fire bombed. Last year the magazine's layout artist, Nhan Trong Do, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his car in Virginia. Since 1981, three other journalists who put out Vietnamese publications have been killed, two in California and one in Texas...
...live insect in each of two containers or two dead bugs per five containers...
...slam -- when Kirk Gibson hobbled . to the plate and gritted a game-winning home run off Eckersley. Sobbing was heard among the faithful; choking was displayed by the players. It was Gibson's only appearance of the pageant, but the A's never shook off his back- from-the-dead blow. They faded in five games...